At $17,717 per pupil, North Gem District ranks #23 of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending (Idaho districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
138
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$17,717
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
North Gem District operates 3 public schools serving 138 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Idaho. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Caribou County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,717 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 180 Idaho districts by per-pupil spending. See how Idaho compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 22.5% local, 68.2% state, and 9.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 100:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 96.3% White, 2.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is North Gem High School, with a diversity index of 9.3/100.
Its largest campus is North Gem Elementary, enrolling 82 students (55% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is North Gem Middle School, at 26 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
North Gem Elementary accounts for 54.7% of all North Gem District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of North Gem District a distant remainder — means North Gem District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
North Gem District school enrollment varies 3.2× across entities
North Gem District school enrollment ranges from 26 students (lowest) to 82 students (highest), a spread of 56 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
North Gem District student-counselor ratio is 100:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.